Cockles and mussels

Irish Song

1. In Dublin’s fair city, where the girls are so pretty,

I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone

As she wheel’d her wheel-barrow

Thro’ streets broad and narrow

Crying: “Cockles and Mussels!

Alive, alive, oh!”

CHORUS:

“Alive, alive, oh!

Alive, alive, oh!”

Crying: “Cockles and Mussels!

Alive, alive, oh!”

2. She was a fishmonger but sure ‘twas no wonder

For so were her father and mother before.

And they each wheeled their barrow

Thro’ streets broad and narrow.

Crying: “Cockles and Mussels!

Alive, alive, oh!”

CHORUS

3. She died of a fever

And no one could save her

And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone.

Her ghost wheels her barrow,

Crying: “Cockles and Mussels!

Alive, alive, oh!”

CHORUS

1) cockle – съедобный моллюск

2) mussel – двустворчатая раковина, мидия

3) Dublin – г. Дублин

4) Molly Malone – Молли Мэлон (женское имя)

5) ‘twas = it was – сокращение для сохранения размера

5. “I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing By” (also known as “On Christmas Day in the Morning”) is a traditional and popular Christmas carol from England.

The origins of “I saw three ships” are unknown but it is believed to be an English carol from the Victorian era. The theme for the song is extremely optimistic.

I saw three ships come sailing by English Folksong

1. I saw three ships come sailing by,

Sailing by, sailing by;

I saw three ships come sailing by,

On New Year’s Day in the morning.

2. And what do you think was in them then?

In them then, in them then;

And what do you think was in them then;

On New Year’s Day in the morning.

3. Three pretty girls were in them then,

In them then, in them then;

Three pretty girls were in them then,

On New Year’s Day in the morning.

4. And one could whistle, and one could sing,

The other could play on the violin;

Such joy there was at the wedding,

On New Year’s Day in the morning.

6. “Home, Sweet Home” is a song that has remained well-known for over 150 years. The American actor and dramatist John Howard Payne wrote the song in 1822 that became widely popular in the United States, Great Britain, and the English-speaking world. The song’s melody was composed by Englishman Sir Henry Bishop

Home, sweet home English Song

(Words by J. Howard Payne)

1. ‘Mid pleasures and palaces though I may roam

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there

Which, seek thro’ the world is ne'er met with elsewhere.

CHORUS:

Home, home, sweet, sweet home, There’s no place like home,

There’s no place like home.

2. I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild,

And feel that my mother now thinks of her child,

As she looks on that moon from our own cottage door

Thro’ the woodbine, whose fragrance shall cheer me no more

CHORUS

3. How sweet ‘tis to sit ‘neath a fond father’s smile,

And the caress of a mother to soothe and beguile.

Let others delight mid new pleasures to roam,

But give me, oh, give me, the pleasures of home.

CHORUS

4. To thee I’ll return overburdened with care

The heart’s dearest face will smile on me there

No more from that cottage again will I roam

Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home.

7. “Land of My Fathers” (“Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau”) is the national anthem of Wales. It is amongst the finest anthems of the world and a song steeped in history. The words of the Welsh National Anthem were written by Evan James and the tune was composed by his son James in 1856. “Land of My Fathers” became the first national anthem to be sung at the start of a sporting event. Now there are many English Translations of the song.